My brothers and I spent a few weeks playing front yard cricket after the backyard got too cluttered with a trampoline and a bungalow. The trick is to play in the front yard but make use of the road and nature strip with shots over the front yard fence.
The usual rules of automatic wicket keeper applied. There were 4 runs for hitting the opposite front yard fence or 1 for hitting the house. There were more runs for getting the ball on the nature strip, the close nature strip was 2 runs, the nature strip on the opposite side of the road was 6 runs, the nature strip on adjoining houses was up to 10 runs. The garage door was 2 runs.
A ball ending up on the road was out! A ball on the footpath was no runs. Anything on the full was out unless the ball ended up on the nature strip.
This required a delicate touch for the near side nature strip and a reckless swing for the distant nature strips. Hitting a tree and getting it on drop onto the nature strip was not a bad idea.
This was a very good game for just two players. If a batsman had a go at a nature strip and missed he had to fetch the ball, otherwise the bowler fetched it.
The usual rules of automatic wicket keeper applied. There were 4 runs for hitting the opposite front yard fence or 1 for hitting the house. There were more runs for getting the ball on the nature strip, the close nature strip was 2 runs, the nature strip on the opposite side of the road was 6 runs, the nature strip on adjoining houses was up to 10 runs. The garage door was 2 runs.
A ball ending up on the road was out! A ball on the footpath was no runs. Anything on the full was out unless the ball ended up on the nature strip.
This required a delicate touch for the near side nature strip and a reckless swing for the distant nature strips. Hitting a tree and getting it on drop onto the nature strip was not a bad idea.
This was a very good game for just two players. If a batsman had a go at a nature strip and missed he had to fetch the ball, otherwise the bowler fetched it.
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